Bloated C++ code

This article discusses the pitfalls of writing bloated C++ code and the importance of writing concise and efficient code. It highlights the humorous notion that programmers should not be paid by the line of code.

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There's an old joke among programmers that you should never pay them by the line of code, because they'll end up writing long, pointless code and leaning hard on copy-paste. These days that joke writes itself, except now the "programmer" is GenAI, and it actually gets paid per line. Ironic.

One of my hobbies is picking apart generated C++ code, just to get a sense of how the software development industry is evolving: which problems are fading out, and which new ones are cropping up. After reading my post Real-world C++ projects built with GenAI: do they exist? someone suggested I check out the VibeTensor project, so I did.

VibeTensor: System Software for Deep Learning, Fully Generated by AI Agents

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